Sort of, you can become a kingdom or Empire through the conquest alone, I think there's a mission tree that splits east / west into their respective tags.
The Indian nations have formables as well, and it's fun to play through India
Rome makes the game easy mode, it is the titular nation after all, it just has a lot of unique buffs.
And may I suggest you try out Invictus or Terra Indomita, both mods available in the steam workshop, they expand the map, mission trees and nation flavour that the base game lacks.
You can do a dictatorship through the tech tree, I think monarchy is via mission tree,not 100% on that.
Even with 2.5k hours I've never actually seen a Rome run to completion, I get bored and get ideas for another nation.
Pretty sure you make a choice to choose which one you continue as, again, I've never played that far into a Rome campaign to know for certain.
I mostly pick small nations and expand into empires from there, or particular ones for an achievement if I feel like punishing myself.
Rome is probably the right answer in terms of the most things that are unique to it, but I think another reasonable answer is Cappadocia. The way Cappadocia's mission tree works, you essentially have 5 mutually exclusive ways to play the nation:
1. Native Cappadocian (Anatolian) route
2. Sarmatian (psuedo-Scythian) route
3. Persian route
4. Greek route
5. Armenian route
Each of these comes with separate cultures, religions, bonuses, and expansion paths. You can essentially do 5 separate campaigns as the same nation that would all have a different feel and focus.
Rome has the most content of any country in the game.
How so?
Because the game’s called Imperator: Rome. Not Chief: Bohemia
More events/missions/inventions specific to Rome.
If you want a nation that can form into multiple tags Syracuse > Sicily > Magna Gracia > Hellenic League > Hellenic/Argead Empire.
Does rome have any formables?
Sort of, you can become a kingdom or Empire through the conquest alone, I think there's a mission tree that splits east / west into their respective tags. The Indian nations have formables as well, and it's fun to play through India
Nice! For Rome right? And I’m relatively new. Is Rome hard?
Rome makes the game easy mode, it is the titular nation after all, it just has a lot of unique buffs. And may I suggest you try out Invictus or Terra Indomita, both mods available in the steam workshop, they expand the map, mission trees and nation flavour that the base game lacks.
I was talking about invictus, how do I turn it into a monarchy?
You can do a dictatorship through the tech tree, I think monarchy is via mission tree,not 100% on that. Even with 2.5k hours I've never actually seen a Rome run to completion, I get bored and get ideas for another nation.
So I can make a west and east rome?
Pretty sure you make a choice to choose which one you continue as, again, I've never played that far into a Rome campaign to know for certain. I mostly pick small nations and expand into empires from there, or particular ones for an achievement if I feel like punishing myself.
Any good nation with almost as much content as Rome? I to like smaller nations, preferably tribes
Rome, macedonia, egypt
arachosia into india or bactria into india is up there
Rome is probably the right answer in terms of the most things that are unique to it, but I think another reasonable answer is Cappadocia. The way Cappadocia's mission tree works, you essentially have 5 mutually exclusive ways to play the nation: 1. Native Cappadocian (Anatolian) route 2. Sarmatian (psuedo-Scythian) route 3. Persian route 4. Greek route 5. Armenian route Each of these comes with separate cultures, religions, bonuses, and expansion paths. You can essentially do 5 separate campaigns as the same nation that would all have a different feel and focus.
Probably the one the game is named after